Stalin
Poskrebyshev
Khrushchev
Beria
Molotov
Malenkov
Mme. Molotov
Shtemenko
Sokolovsky
Ignatiev
Zhukhov
Rassine
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.